Outbreak software for Disease Risk Assessment

Initial test version -- some features not yet implemented

This page provides access to the Outbreak software for Disease Risk Assessment for wildlife populations.
Designed by JP Pollak, Bob Lacy, Phil Miller, Patti Bright, and Laura Hungerford.
Programmed by JP Pollak.
Development supported by the Morris Animal Foundation and the IUCN SSC Conservation Breeding Specialist Group (CBSG).

Outbreak is copyrighted but not copy protected. You cannot legally sell the program to others or represent it as your own work. Outbreak is distributed without cost for the purpose of furthering conservation and research.

Distribution of Outbreak is restricted to:

distribution by the IUCN SSC Conservation Breeding Specialist Group
distribution by the Chicago Zoological Society
downloading of the program from the Internet (http://www.vortex9.org/outbreakinstall.zip)
redistribution without charge of the unmodified executable program for the purposes described above.

To install Outbreak:

download http://www.vortex9.org/outbreakinstall.zip (about 4 MB),
unzip (using PKZIP or WinZip or a similar program) the above file into a directory of your choice,
run Setup.exe

Outbreak is designed to function as a stand-alone program for conducting risk assessments related to disease in wildlife populations. It can also be coupled with the Vortex Population Viability Analysis software to provide more extensive population risk assessments, incorporating consideration of disease, demographic stochasticity, environmental variation, genetic change, and management actions. The Vortex program can be obtained from http://www.vortex9.org/vortex.html.

At this time, Outbreak is provided without a manual or other support. It is anticipated that a manual will be produced in the near future. Watch this website for further information and upgrades.

If you think you discover a bug in Outbreak, send a message describing the problem in detail to outbreak@vortex9.org.

Changes last made on: 1 September 2003